Well, NaPoBloMo was tougher than I expected. There were days when I had to self-censor myself and deleted three or four semi-written posts. Days when I had nothing to post but drivel. And days when I posted drivel at 11.58pm! But nevertheless, it is done.



Hurrah. Now I can go back to my usual lacklustre efforts of posting once a week or so. Phew! (On the plus side, it has been good for my self-discipline (ha!) and also good to realise that I can always find something to post about, even when I don't think I can).

My favourite posts from the last thirty days were:

9 November - the photo of my old flat
11 November - music I shouldn't like
17 November - Monkey
23 November - Jedward (this month's finest hour)

And now, if you will excuse me, I must go and play Wizard 101 every waking moment, neglecting all else, until I have satisfied my obsession. I may be some time. Thank you and goodnight :)

Alicey: I'm hungry.
Izzy: (laughing) I had dry cheese and crackers earlier.
Alicey: Without the cheese.
Izzy: Yeah... dry cheese and crackers, without the cheese.
Mattgreen: (repeating with incredulity) Dry cheese and crackers, WITHOUT THE CHEESE? So... just dry crackers then?
Izzy: (giggling) Yes!
Mattgreen: Be still my beating tastebud.

Generally I'm pretty good at chucking stuff away. When you've moved house as many times as I have (and if you haven't lost count yet, you probably haven't) you get used to cutting down your possessions at regular intervals. But my weak point is food magazines. My favourite two are Good Food and Waitrose Food Illustrated.

A couple of years back Mattgreen started complaining that our coffee table was rammed with back issues of my magazines. I nodded sagely and commented that I really should get round to snipping out the recipes I wanted to make. Time passed. Planets collided. The piles of magazines started creeping onto the floor.

Eventually I agreed to purchase a plastic box to keep my magazines in until I got round to looking through them. Here is the box:



That was a while ago now. Not only have I not got round to sorting through the box, I also haven't stopped buying more magazines. Hence:



(You can just about see the box underneath one of the piles). Sigh.

I can't bear to throw them away (especially as some of the are now about five years old - they're practically antique!) but I just never have time to go through them. In fact many of them (including the latest issue of Good Food, visible on the top of one of the piles) I have never even read.

There's no hope, is there? Sooner or later our house will look like this.

Isabel told me this joke today:

Q: How do you make Lady Gaga cry?
A: Poke her face

.. so no time for a proper post today!
I am going to a gig, with grown-up people who don't have children, and I am wearing my lovely new dress, and my shiny red shoes, and it is going to be very fabulous indeed.

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

I did the Big Personality Test which is part of some research for Child of our Time. The results showed that I scored off the scale on extroversion and highly on neuroticism, and not too well on anything else. Hmm.



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